Updated 28 October 2026: rewritten, expanded and fact-checked against the sources listed in the article.
About $73 million worth of tokens were scheduled to unlock between 29 June and 5 July 2026. Ethena (ENA), Sui (SUI) and EigenLayer (EIGEN) were among the largest releases, according to a NewsBTC report published on 29 June, which credited the data to Cryip. The same report put the previous week’s unlocks at $129.67 million, so this was a lighter week for new supply.
The NewsBTC report did not break the $73 million down by token or name the recipients. Below we set out what each project’s published schedule shows, and how the three tokens actually traded that week.
Why weekly unlock totals matter
A token unlock happens when previously locked tokens, usually allocated to team members, early investors or ecosystem funds, become transferable. New supply does not have to be sold. But markets watch these dates because insiders who received tokens at low prices may take profits. If you are new to the topic, our guide to token unlock schedules explains cliffs, linear vesting and how to read an unlock calendar.
Ethena (ENA)
Ethena’s documentation says core contributors and investors got no tokens for the first year after the ENA launch on 5 March 2024. A quarter of their allocation unlocked at the one-year mark, and the rest vests in equal monthly instalments over the following three years. Tokenomist lists those two groups at 30% and 25% of the 15 billion ENA supply.
On those terms the monthly release works out to about 171.9 million ENA (75% of 8.25 billion, divided by 36). That is our calculation from the published schedule, not a figure from the NewsBTC report. At ENA’s closing price of $0.0765 on 2 July, it was worth roughly $13 million. Tokenomist lists Ethena’s next core-contributor release on 2 November 2026. It says about 89% of the total supply had unlocked as of 28 October 2026, with the schedule running into 2028.
Sui (SUI)
SUI has a fixed cap of 10 billion tokens. Sui’s documentation says the one-year cliff for initial investors ended in May 2024, and that the remaining supply is released on a multi-tier vesting schedule. According to Tokenomist, about 4.12 billion SUI (41%) was circulating as of 28 October 2026. Its next listed unlock, to the Community Reserve, is on 1 November 2026, and the full schedule runs into 2030. We could not independently verify the size of the early-July SUI release, because Tokenomist’s per-event history is behind a paywall.
EigenLayer (EIGEN)
EIGEN, the token behind Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer (now branded EigenCloud), has no fixed maximum supply. Tokenomist lists investors at 29.5% and early contributors at 25.5% of the initial allocation. It shows about 976 million EIGEN circulating as of 28 October 2026, with the next listed release, to early contributors, on 1 November 2026. As with SUI, we could not verify the exact amount released in the week of 29 June.
How prices reacted
None of the three tokens fell over the unlock week as a whole, although ENA and EIGEN both hit their lowest close of the week on 1 July. Yahoo Finance daily closing prices (USD):
| Token | 28 Jun close | 1 Jul close | 5 Jul close | Week change | 28 Oct close |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENA | 0.0768 | 0.0712 | 0.0804 | +4.7% | 0.2051 |
| SUI | 0.6807 | 0.7155 | 0.7555 | +11.0% | 0.9405 |
| EIGEN | 0.2342 | 0.1956 | 0.2391 | +2.1% | 0.1982 |
ENA’s 1 July close of $0.0712 turned out to be its lowest close of 2026 in the Yahoo data. EIGEN dropped about 16% from 28 June to 1 July before recovering by the weekend. SUI rose steadily through the week. Unlocks are only one factor in any move, and these figures do not show that the releases caused the dips or the rebounds.
What happened next
Update, 28 October 2026: the three tokens went separate ways after the unlock week.
- ENA climbed to a 2026 high close of $0.2727 on 27 September, more than triple its July low, and stood at $0.2051 on 28 October. See also our June report on the Coinbase-Ethena partnership.
- SUI fell to its 2026 low close of $0.6517 on 18 August and then recovered to $0.9405 by 28 October, about 24% above its 5 July close. For earlier context, see our SUI and Grayscale ETF report.
- EIGEN traded at $0.1982 on 28 October, about 17% below its 5 July close.
What to check before an unlock week
- Who receives the tokens: investor and team releases tend to matter more than ecosystem or community-reserve releases, which are often spent gradually.
- Size against trading volume: a $13 million release is significant for a token trading a few million dollars a day, and much less so for one trading hundreds of millions.
- Cliff or linear: one-off cliff unlocks are larger and more visible than routine monthly instalments, which markets usually expect.
- Primary sources: weekly roundups are useful pointers, but check the project’s own vesting documentation and an unlock tracker before acting on a headline total.
Sources
- NewsBTC: ENA, SUI and EIGEN lead this week’s $73 million token unlock schedule (29 Jun 2026, data credited to Cryip)
- Ethena documentation: ENA tokenomics
- Tokenomist: Ethena (ENA), accessed 28 Oct 2026
- Sui documentation: Tokenomics
- Tokenomist: Sui (SUI), accessed 28 Oct 2026
- Tokenomist: EigenCloud (EIGEN), accessed 28 Oct 2026
- Yahoo Finance daily closing data for ENA-USD, SUI20947-USD and EIGEN-USD, retrieved 28 Oct 2026
Explainer: Token Unlock Schedules Explained: How Vesting Works and How to Track Unlocks
Corrections: An earlier version did not attribute the $73 million and $129.67 million weekly unlock totals; they come from a NewsBTC report citing Cryip. Speculative price commentary was replaced with actual price data.
How this article was made: first published on 29 June 2026 as an AI-assisted rewrite of a news report (original report by NewsBTC: TradingView News). On 28 October 2026 it was rewritten and expanded with AI assistance, and its facts and figures were checked against the primary sources linked above; errors in the earlier version are listed above. How we work · Report an error
